Here’s some shots from this past weekend’s Saloncon, with your fearless leader being schooled in what happens when you taunt a woman with a clockwork arm. The story goes something like this…
Me: Hey there lady, that’s a fine hat ya gots there.
Lady: Why thank you! I love it quite well, I do.
Me: You know I could hang that thing easily twixt my nether region ya know.
Her: Why dear sir, I never…
Me: AGGHAAA!
Her: Take that you unkempt cad!
Fun story ain’t it? I guess that schooled me good. In any case you can see a tun of photos from this past Saloncon on their Flickr profile. And if you’re looking for some ass-kicking Steampunk gear, like the clockwork arm in these pictures, go and check out Brute Force Leather.
Zombie Monkey Projects is off to Saloncon, a gathering for folks who do what we oldsters call ‘Steampunk’. Lots of you young’ns like to call it ‘Neo-Victorian’… or yeah, Steampunk. Right. There’s a Steampunk meetup tonight and a load of things to do tomorrow. Check out the website for the shindig’s full schedule, which include a performance from Abeny Park. In any case I’ll be pushing my artwork, so be sure to look for the Grendel’s Den Design Studio banner.
So here’s a video from the headlining band Abney Park.
J.J. Abrams loves layered stories and plots, and his new series Fringe is no exception. His viral marketing monkeys have been busy trying to get all of the ARG materials up online, including the newly opened site for fictitious conglomerate Massive Dynamic. The fan site FringeTelevision.com has published some of the new comics, which are prequels to the TV series. There’s a new music video for Fringe, featuring Ror-Shak and their cover of The Cure’s A Forest. And as if that’s not enough, there’s Glowing Monkeys. You’re guess is as good as mine on that one.
So once more Mr. Abrams you pull the strings to the geek world and we dance for your pleasure.
Want to waist a whole day getting your paper craft skillz on? Then Cubeecraft is where you begin your journey. These nerdtastic paper toys need no tape, glue or mad origami skills to assemble. Just print them out, cut ‘em and fold as directed. And let me tell you, there’s just about every geeky pop-culture icon there, for example - Ultraman, Brock, a Stormtrooper, Mr.Stay Puft, Usagi Yojimbo, Master Chief, Dr.Manhattan, Bender, Gir, Strongbad Jason Voorhees and Peyton Manning (yeah, he’s a nerd’s football player if there ever was one).
Want to make yourself a sweet ride for some Halloween cruisin’? Well the ghouls from Burrhill Boneyards have something that may fill that ticket - the Coffin Cruiser. Built on the frame of a lawnmower, this baby has working lights, a scrolling LED marquee, ample seating, skeletons, tombstones, pvc tricked out to look like chromed exhaust and the bragging rights to having the most awesome riding mower in town. Check out the video below to see the Coffin Cruiser in action, and the site for design details, photos and more videos.
Do you have a fever? One that can only be cured with… more cowbell? If that’s the case MoreCowbell.dj is that means to a cure. It’s a Flash app that inserts rhythmic cowbell and Chritopher Walken samples to your lame mp3. How’s it done? Well…
MoreCowbell.DJ is an application built using The Echo Nest Analyze API . Analyze API is a tool that enriches your software’s understanding of music. It uses a perceptual model of human listening to generate detailed XML descriptions of a song’s structure and musical content to power music applications with a much deeper musical understanding.
I’m not too sure what the hell that all means but who cares? It adds more cowbell!
Tomorrow will dawn a big day in the scientific community, let alone the world in general, when the switch is thrown to the massive Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator which will collide beams of protons. Once that happens one of two things will happen…
1. Science FTW! Scientists finally discover the ever elusive “God Particle”, which is the only elementary particle that has never been observed by science, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and missing links in the Standard Model of physics and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass.
2. We’re Doomed! The high-energy particle collisions performed might produce dangerous phenomena, including micro black holes, strangelets, vacuum bubbles and magnetic monopoles. Kiss your ass goodbye!
Following in the footsteps of other Republicans, John McCain running mate Sarah Palin has her own action figure. Pictured above is the hotter of the two, the “Sarahnator” which comes dressed in a tomb raider outfit and is equipped with a leg holstered .45 handgun. This obviously will further perpetuate Palin as the current holder to the title of PILF.
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